wheeling n.— «Melcher tied up the Senate for several days over a more technical issue of importance to small and public utilities—their ability to get power “wheeled” to them across the transmission lines of larger private...
rat-racing n.— «They call it “rat-racing”—high G-turns that crunch the pilots down in their seats, blasts of afterburner acceleration, simulated missile firings, electronic games of tag staged in the skies five miles up over...
Hajji mobile n.— «Right after I sent out my letter yesterday, George got a message that Raad, our interpreter, had been stopped by gunmen while driving his Hajji mobile.» —“11-12 May” by clcperky Between Iraq & a...
gronk n.— «In a letter Armytage later wrote to the then Minister for Juvenile Justice, Faye Lo Po,” he listed examples of the racial abuse the youths alleged they had been subjected to. “You black c—, you got no ticker.”...
gamer n.— «Ken Caminiti’s fellow players called him a gamer. In professional baseball parlance, that is someone who plays through pain when injured, someone who is willing to do whatever it takes to win.» —“Caminiti Was a Gamer Who...
sack up v.— «I heard the term “butch up” while watching “Die Hard With a Vengeance” last night.…I have transgressed the term to be more encompassing to be used more like “grow some balls,”...